Ode to Operating Room

Heart rate in the minor key brain-waves in the operating room doctor’s without faces no gloves burnt hands proceed to incision skin peels like fresh lemons cold touch of scalpel to the skin transplant of the unethical violations of Medicare fiscal infection keep the penicillin coming oxygen related hallucinations surgical team all unconscious submission to the hidden Rx get your coma in a pill heart beat at the minimum revival using electrical chair Dr.’s orders go ahead and swallow your heart death due to emergency room close your eyes as the nurses stitch you up

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